Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden
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  1. Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. - Rick Riordan

  2. It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  4. What are wits for unless a man uses them? - Ellis Peters

  5. A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction. - Michael Bassey Johnson

More Quotes By John Dryden
  1. I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again

  2. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

  3. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

  4. Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

  5. For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

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